Emblem-ring.



J. A. SGHRINK.

EMBLEM RING.

APPLIOATION FILED APR. 15, 1910.

1,091,539. Patented Mar. 31, 1914.

WITNESSES 9 INVENTOR UNTTEE gTATES PATENT @FETQE.

JOHN A. SCHBINK, OF NEWARK, NElV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN F. SCI-IRINK & SON, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

EMBLEM-RING.

To all whom it may concern Beit known that 1, JOHN A. Soimmn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Xewark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in Emblem-Rings, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of this invention are to provide an emblem ring in which the emblem can be readily detached or removed and another emblem substituted for it; to enable such change to be effected without tools or special skill; to nevertheless obtain a firm and secure attachment of the emblem to the ring, so that it will not be lost; to enable the emblem ring to be made thin, like a signet ring; to secure a simple and inexpen sive construction, and to obtain other advantages and results as may be brought out in the following description.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several figures, Figure 1 is an outside view of an emblem ring of my improved construction; Fig. 2 is a similar view with the emblem taken ofi; Fig. 3 is a side view of the ring complete; Fig. 4 is a section of the ring on line H of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a View from inside the ring of the emblem attaching means, showing the locking plate just entering into engagement with the studs of the emblem; Fig. 6 is a similar view showing the locking plate in final locking position, and Fig. 7

3a is an enlarged edge view of the locking plate detached.

In said drawings, 1 indicates the band of the ring, which band in my improved construction is made like a signet ring, with a widened and eXteriorly-flattened portion 2 which affords a base for the emblem 8. In said base 2 are holes or apertures 4t extending transversely of the band of the ring and adapted to receive hooked studs or posts 5 on the emblem. The emblem when in position thus lies flat upon the flattened outer surface of the base 2 with its said studs 5 extending into the holes 4. to the inner side of the ring band 1. Any emblem 0 may be employed, and the purpose of the invention is to have a plurality of emblems all with studs just alike and arranged in exactly the same way, so that any one of such emblems can be applied to the ring band Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 15, 1910.

and its studs will enter the holes 4 thereof.

Patented Mar. 31, 1914.

Serial No. 555,669.

I have shown two holes at located on the ma or axis of the elliptical base 2, but obviously any desired number of holes can be employed and disposed in any desired arrangement.

At the inner side of the base portion 2 of the band of the ring is a recess 6, into which the ends of the studs 5 project, and flatwise upon the floor of said recess is pivoted a plate 7 having peripheral portions adapted to enter the undercuts 8 of the hooked studs 5 as the plate is turned or rotated. Preferably the said reccss 6 is circular, as shown, and the holes at for the studs 5 are partly within its periphery; the hooked ends of the studs thus project into the recess, and the locking plate itself is made circular to fit the circular recesses, with notches or cut-away portions 9. 9 at opposite points to clear the studs 5, 5 when turned into registration therewith. The edges of said locking plate which are adapted to engage the studs have each at its forward end a bevel or incline 10 to wedge under the hooked end of the stud, and beyond said incline a pocket 11 for said end of the stud to finally rest in. There is also a socket 12 to receive the point of a pin or other instrument for rotating the locking plate conveniently.

The engaging ends of the locking plate, as shown in Fig. 7, are twisted somewhat after the manner of propeller blades, so that the heels or rear portions of their peripheral edges lie upwardly away from the floor of the recess 6. By this construction, when the locking plate is secured in said recess 6 by means of the central rivet 13 upon which it rotates, the forward beveled corners of its end edges lie close against the floor of the recess, while the rear ends or heels of said locking edges are at a little distance from the floor so that they can yield as springs when .the ends of the studs pass over the inclines into the pockets 11. Said pockets thus serve as detents to hold the locking plate against any inadvertent loosening, and at the same time the resiliency of the locking plate or its bent-41p portions enables it to be released by positive pressure of a pin or the like in the sockets 12.

The construction above described enables the base 2 of the ring to be made thin and like the corresponding portion of a signet ring and at the same time any one of a number of emblems can be firmly and securely mounted upon its outer surface, without the use of special tools or any special skill on the part of the dealer or wearer of the ring.

Obviously my improved construction can be applied to other articles than a ring as, for instance, to pins, watch-charms or the like, and I wish to be understood as including in my claims all articles to which the invention is applicable.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

1. An emblem ring or the like comprising in combination a body having an exterior seat for an emblem and an interior circular recess opposite said seat and a hole extending from said seat through said body partly inside and partly outside said recess, an emblem for said seat having a stud adapted to extend into said hole, said stud having at its side exposed by said recess a lateral notch cut back as far as the wall of the recess, and a locking plate pivotally held in said recess and'having a circumferential portion of itself fitting close to the side wall of said recess and being cut away at another circumferential portion to clear said stud when said stud'is in place during attaching and detaching operation.

2. An emblem ring or the like comprising in combination a body having an exterior seat and an interior recess opposite each other and a hole through said seat into the recess, an emblem fitting said seat and having a stud adapted to extend through said hole with a hook port-ion projecting into said recess, and a locking plate pivoted in said recess and having a resilient marginal portion, the outer edge of which extends over part of said hole and is curved on the arc of a circle whose center is the point of pivoting and adapted to engage said hook portion of the stud when said hook portion is in place, said marginal portion engaging at one end of itself the end wall of the recess and being inclined toward its other end away from said end wall, whereby rotation of the plate will wedge its said marginal port-ion under the hook portion of the stud.

3. An emblem ring or the like comprising in combination a body having an exterior seat and an interior recess opposite each other and a hole through said seat into the recess, an emblem fitting said seat and having a stud adapted to extend through said hole with a hook portion projecting into said recess, and a locking plate pivoted in said re cess and having a resilient marginal portion the outer edge of which extends over part of said hole and is curved on the arc of a circle whose center is the point of pivoting andadapted to engage said hook portion of the stud when said hook portion is in place said marginal portion having one end of itself beveled and engaging the end wall of the recess and being inclined toward its other end away from said end wall and having a pocket intermediate said ends and a socket between said pocket and the end of the marginal portion away from the said beveled end, whereby the point of a tool can be inserted in said socket and the plate rotated to wedge its said marginal portion under the hook portion of the stud and seat said hook portion in said pocket.

JOHN A. SCHRINK.

Witnesses:

RUSSELL M. EVERETT, FRANCES E. BLODGETT.

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